My younger daughter told me recently that when she was a child she thought the typewriter was a toy that I went into my room and closed the door and played with.

In talking about the past, we lie with every breath we draw.

Love, even of the most ardent and soul-destroying kind, is never caught by the lens of the camera.

What we refer to confidently as memory is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often changes with the telling.

My father represented authority, which meant—to me—that he could not also represent understanding.

The nail doesn't choose the time or the circumstances in which it is drawn to the magnet

Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out the side door).